INDEX. 



347 



Reefs, rate of growth of, 212 



„ of windward side highest, 201 

 Renillidx. 70 



Reproduction in Actinia?, 19 

 Revillagigedo Islands, 259 

 Rimetara, 288 

 Ringgold, Capt., on Penrhyn's and 



other islands, 291 

 Rivers, effects of, 205 

 Rock, appearance and composition 



of Bahama, 177 

 Rocks, consolidation of coral, 121 



—123, 305 

 Rose Island, 282 

 Rota, elevation of, 297 

 Rotuma, 261, 294 

 Rurutu, 260, 261 

 Rurutu, an elevated island, 288 

 Sagartia parasitica, 17 

 St. Augustine shell rock, 310 

 Sala-y-Gomez, 259 

 Salomon Islands, 264 

 Salt Key Bank, 174 

 Samoa. See Navigator Group 

 Sandwich Islands, elevations at, 



292 ; see further Hawaian 

 Savage Island, 289 

 Savaii, 279 

 Saya-de-Malha, 268 

 Schomburgh, R. H., drift sands of 



Anegada, 150 

 Sea-cucumbers, 129 

 Sea, depths of disturbance by waves, 



291 

 Sea-ginseng, 129 

 Sea-slugs, 129 



Sea-water, composition of, 75 

 Seriatopora, 49 

 Senses in Actinice, 19 

 Septa, 23, 39 

 Serle's Island, 138 

 Seychelles, 268 



Sharpies, S. P., analyses of corals, 75 

 Sherboro Island, 269 

 Shore-platform, origin of, 196 

 Siau, M., on ripple marks at the 



bottom of the sea, 191 

 Silliman, B., analysis of dolomitic 



coral rock of Matea, 307 

 Silliman, B., anyalysis of coral sand 

 of Straits of Balabac, 



307 

 Society Islands, 260, 274, 281 

 Somers' Islands, 182 



Sooloo Sea, 265 

 Soundings about atolls, i 

 Sponges, nature of, 321 

 Spontaneous fission, 36 

 Starbuck's Island, 253, 290 

 Starve Island, 253 

 Staver's Island, 291 

 Stevenson, force of waves, 191 

 Stimpson, \Vm., observations by, 8, 



59, 60, 68 

 Stones of basalt or other rocks on 



coral islands, 246 

 Strombas gigas, 177 

 Stutchbury, on Rurutu, 288 

 Stylaster erubescens, 48 

 Stylo phora Danae, 49 

 Subsidence in the Pacific, 272, 281 

 ,, amount of land lost by, 



280 

 ,, period and extent of, 



and accompanying 

 changes over the 

 globe, 314 

 Sunday Island, 261 

 Swain's Island, 135, 160, 289, 

 Sydney Island, 162, 292 

 Synapticulae, 39 

 Tafua, 261, 289 

 Tahiti, north shore of, 206 

 ,, thickness of reef, 127 

 ,, no elevation at, 287 

 Taiara, 135, 162 

 Tanna, 263 

 Tapateuea, 132, 136, 149 



„ elevation of, 294, 297 



Tarawa, 132, 134 



Tarawan Archipelago. See Gilbert 

 Tari-tari, 134, 136 

 Tealia crassicornis. See Urticina 

 Teku, 161 



Telesto ramiculosa, 60 

 Temperature limiting distribution of 

 corals, ZT) 

 „ of Atlantic Ocean in 



past time, 312, 313 

 „ chart, 256 



Tetuaroa, 260, 279 

 Thecocyathus cylindraceus, 23 

 Tikopia, 263 

 Timor, 265 

 Timorlaut, 265 

 Tinakora, 263 

 Tonga Islands, 288 

 Tongatabu, 261, 288 



